Greek War of Independence

The Greek War of Independence (1821–1829), also commonly known as the Greek Revolution, was a successful war by the Greeks who won independence for Greece from the Ottoman Empire. Muhammad Ali Pasha sent his son Ismail with an army and a fleet to help fight the Greeks and the Greek Christian revolutionaries asked for help from European Christians. A fleet of the United Kingdom, France and Russia destroyed the Ottoman-Egypt fleet in the Battle of Navarino. After a long and bloody struggle, independence was finally achieved, and confirmed by the Treaty of Constantinople in July 1832. The Greeks were thus the first of the Ottoman Empire's subject peoples to be accepted as an independent sovereign power.

Greek War of Independence
Part of Revolutions during the 1820s
Germanos blessing the flag at Agia Lavra. Oil painting, 1865.
Date 1821 – 1829 Location The Balkans (mainly Greece) and the Aegean Sea. Result Greek victory, establishment of the Kingdom of Greece.
Belligerents
Greek revolutionaries United Kingdom France Russian Empire	Ottoman Empire Egyptian Khedivate
Commanders and leaders
Theodoros Kolokotronis Alexandros Ipsilantis Konstantinos Kanaris Georgios Karaiskakis	22px Omer Vryonis 22px Mahmud Dramali Pasha 22px Reşid Mehmed Pasha Ibrahim Pasha
Casualties and losses
300	4,285

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  Athanasios Diakos

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  Laskarina Bouboulina

Greek War Of Independence Media

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  Portrait of a Greek armatolos by Richard Parkes Bonington (oil painting, 1825–1826, Benaki Museum)

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  • en:Adamantios Korais
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  Cover of "Thourios" by Rigas Feraios; intellectual, revolutionary and forerunner of the Greek Revolution.

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  House of Filiki Eteria on Greek Square in Odesa

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  Ali, Vizier of Albania, also called Pacha of Jannina by Adam Friedel, drawn from life and published in 1828.

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  Alexander Ypsilantis crosses the Pruth, by Peter von Hess (Benaki Museum, Athens)

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  Important events of the first year of the war

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  Declaration of the revolutionaries of Patras; engraved on a stele in the city

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  Anagnostaras during the Battle of Valtetsi by Peter von Hess.

References

• Finlay, George (1877). A History of Greece (Edited by H. F. Tozer). London.
• Finlay, George (1861). History of Greek Revolution. London.
• Gordon, Thomas (1844). History of the Greek Revolution. London.
• Paroulakis, Peter H. (2000). The Greek War of Independence. Hellenic International Press. ISBN 978-0959089417.
• St. Clair, William (1972). That Greece Might Still Be Free - The Philhellenes in the War of Independence. London: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0192151940.

Other websites

• Treaty of Constantinople Archived 2003-08-11 at the Wayback Machine
• of London, 1832
• War of Independence